Word: cupped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...speech before Congress (where he at last assumed the seat that he had won in 1946), Taruc revealed that Appomattox was not exactly what he had in mind. Said he: "I did not come to surrender, but to cooperate . . . The word 'surrender' is poison to the crystal cup of better relations...
Giovanni Bellini's Feast of the Gods has long been a puzzle as well as a masterpiece. The gods look more drunk than divine. Vesta, protector of virgins, lies dozing in one corner of the picture while Priapus fiddles with her skirt. A blowsy Ceres helps Apollo hoist cup to lip. Neptune is paired off with Gaea, who holds a quince -the symbol of marriage. Bacchus appears as a child, and his foster father Silenus looks more like a slender ascetic than a roly-poly satyr. Generations of art scholars have wondered...
This was followed by the Crimson's greatest coup earlier this week, when it defeated a strong field including Yale and M.I.T. for the Dinghy Club Challenge Cup...
...Challenge Cup...
Crimson dinghy skippers concluded their season on the Charles River Basin over the weekend by beating out 11 other colleges for the Boston Dinghy Club Cup...